I want to raise an issue concerning Standing Orders. There appears to be a change to Standing Order 120. It means that the Technical Group will be expanded. I acknowledge the point the Ceann Comhairle makes on the importance of respecting the mandate of everybody elected-----

Let me interrupt the Deputy. There is to be no change to Standing Order 120. I wrote to the Deputy this afternoon. I hope she received the letter before she came into the House.

I did.

It explains the exact position. The Chair has no role in the matter.

That is the direct opposite of what the Ceann Comhairle told us last year.

I did not tell the Deputy anything of the sort.

I have it here.

We have a recording.

We have a recording of it.

This is not the place in which to raise the issue.

This has to be the place in which to raise it.

If the Deputy comes to my office afterwards, I will be only too pleased to speak to her. It will be no problem.

This has to be the place in which to raise it.

The Committee on Procedure and Privileges is the place in which to raise it, not here.

The Chair did not have the courtesy to tell us that in the first place.

If Deputy Catherine Murphy wishes to come to my office, I will deal with it. However, as far as I am concerned, what appeared in the newspapers today was totally and utterly incorrect. First, I had no hand, act or part in two new Members applying for membership of the Technical Group; that is not my role. The Standing Order sets out how a technical group can or cannot be formed. Any change is a matter for the Committee on Procedure and Privileges; it is then a matter for the Dáil to decide on.

Therefore, there has been no change.

There has been no change.

I will take up the invitation to go to the Ceann Comhairle's office afterwards.

Certainly.